B. Labatut, The Stone of Madness, trans. L. Topi, Adelphi, 2021, p. 13 (orig. ed., The stone of madness, 2021): the most merciful thing in the world, wrote Lovecraft, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance amidst the turbid waters of the infinite, and it is not our fate to travel far. So far, the sciences, each pursuing its own course, have harmed us only minimally; but the day will come when the mosaic of all fragments of knowledge will offer us a vision so horrifying of reality, and of the place we occupy within it, that either we shall go mad before that revelation, or we shall recoil from the illumination, retreating into the peace and safety of a new dark age.
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